PVS Flashcards
1
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Theatre of Dionysus (Dionysia)
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- location: Athens
- date: second half of the 6th century BC
- signif: located above a sanctuary to Dion. at the south-eastern foot of the Acropolis
- capacity: 17,000
- areas: prohedria, theatron, orchestra, parodos, skene
2
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Theatre of Thorikos
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- location: southeast Attica
- date: late 6th or early 5th century BC
- signif: rectangular, irregular shape
- capacity: >3,000
3
Q
Single actor + two audience members vase
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- Red-figure chous fragment
- Location: Athens
- Date: c. 420 BC
- signif: only ancient g. painting to portray an audience
4
Q
Medea’s escape vase
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- Red-figure calyx krater
- date: c. 400 BC
- signif: portrays use of crane and the wheel platform
- no furies or dragons in Euripides’ play: may know a different version, or maybe its artist’s own developed interp
5
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Women at the Thesmophoria vase
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- red-figure bell krater
- aristophanes’ comedy in 411
- south-italian vase
